How to Clone a WordPress Site Manually in 5 Easy Steps

How to Clone a WordPress Site Manually in 5 Easy Steps

Parthenia Fortier

The above image is self-explanatory. Just to tell you, enter your email id and password. Remember password as you will have to enter later in the process as well. In the 3rd and 4th step, chose as per you convenience. As I am using for the testing, so I have selected Local only and if you want the plugin to take backup automatically select automatic else do it manually whenever you want.

How To Clone A WordPress Site? A Step-By-Step Guide

Brandi Flores

The easiest way to clone WordPress sites is to use a backup and cloning plugin. There are many of these plugins available for free, such as Duplicator or All-in-One WP Migration, as well as some paid options like BackupBuddy or WP Migrate DB Pro. Any of these plugins, including the free options, are capable of backing up and migrating a site for beginners and experts alike.

Step By Step Guide To Clone WordPress Website Manually

Alyssa Osborne

The setting of Updraft is very simple and straight forward. Go to setting tab and set backup schedule, you can set it as manual or automatically in between some interval of time. If you don’t want to save the backup locally on your server then you can use third-party services such as Amazon S3 (or compatible), Dropbox, Rackspace Cloud Files, Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage, DreamHost DreamObjects, FTP, OpenStack (Swift) and email. Also (via a paid add-on) backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, FTP over SSL, SFTP, SCP, and WebDAV (and compatible services, e.g. Yandex, Cubby, OwnCloud). Examples of S3-compatible providers: Cloudian, Connectria, Constant, Eucalyptus, Nifty, Nimbula, Cloudn.

How to Clone a WordPress Website Even if You’re a Total Beginner

Gloria Russell

First, let’s talk about what the term ‘cloning’ means in this context. Cloning your site is different from backing it up. Cloning involves creating a fully operational copy of your site that’s set up in a specific location, whereas backing up your site results in a ‘dormant’ copy of your site’s files that can be stored anywhere for safekeeping.

How to Update WordPress Manually In 16 Steps

Monnie William

If you want to show users a maintenance message, you still need a cloning plugin that offers such a function. The reason is that you must disable all plugins while manually updating WordPress. This means that simple plugins as Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode will be disabled in the process and will therefore have not display an eventual maintenance mode page that you design in it. Cloning plugins allow you to pull a copy of your site to local host for maintenance, while your site continues to be live and unchanged. Once you’re ready updating WordPress, the plugin makes your changes public.